Do you ever find yourself hesitating to sign up for a new website or application because you have to create yet another username and password? Well. You’re not alone. Many people feel overwhelmed by the number of accounts that they need to manage. Fortunately social login offers a solution. Social…

With everyone moving towards cloud based service platforms, the use of passwords are getting increased day by day. On the other hand, online security attacks are getting increased at a similar rate and more and more people are caught into account takeovers and data breaches. It no longer matters how…

“In March 2022, FIDO Alliance and the W3C WebAuthn working group proposed a new version of the WebAuthn specification where they claim to resolve common usability issues with FIDO while ensuring a high level of security. …

FIDO is a common term we always hear in the context of passwordless authentication. In this blog post, I’m going to take a historical journey on how the path created towards a passwordless authentication mechanism and then discuss how FIDO authentication works. Let’s first look at how authentication methods evolved…

Have you ever felt like passwords are really annoying? You’ve been using older technology in a developing world? With modern security requirements, password policies are much strengthened and creating a memorable password according to these policies is very difficult. With the current pandemic situation, the world has fastly moved towards…

JSON web tokens, simply referred to as JWTs (pronounced as “jot”) is an open standard that defines a mechanism to securely communicate between two parties. Before getting into JWTs, let’s understand the terminology behind the concept. Path Towards JWT Almost all of the web based applications exist today use internet protocols to communicate…

What is application insights? What does it do? What is the advantage of having it in your applications? Before diving into application insights, let’s hear Sam’s story. Sam is a website developer who recently built a shopping website for a new rising company. After launching the website for the public…

Many of you are familiar with networks, right? You might be using social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. They are social networks. You might be dealing with stock exchanges. Either you might be buying new stocks, selling what you already have, etc. They are networks. Not only…

Have you ever thought about what happens when someone’s social media account, bank account or any other account/ profile get hacked? How do some systems automatically detect such activities and notify them to relevant authorities or suspend the account immediately? That is mainly done through the process called Anomaly Detection…